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This week, a federal court in El Paso, Texas has been hearing a case that could determine who controls Congress after next year’s elections. And Democracy Docket has been one of the very few national news outlets to cover it.
Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the urging of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, aiming to eliminate some majority minority districts with a plan that’s now under scrutiny in federal court in El Paso.
A Texas Democratic lawmaker told a federal court Friday that the state’s gerrymander was spurred by a U.S. Department of Justice letter urging Republicans to target districts with minority representatives.
EL PASO, TEXAS — A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the request of President Donald Trump. State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) told the court the latest Texas redistricting process was a bad faith, secretive effort […]
A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms.
At Democracy Docket, we pride ourselves on monitoring the voting and democracy landscape — and especially the right’s never-ending effort to undermine fair elections — more closely than just about anyone else.
Texas Republicans are officially renouncing the rationale they used to justify their mid-decade redistricting effort, as they get ready to defend their new gerrymander in court.
This week’s biggest story for democracy didn’t happen in a courtroom, a legislative chamber, or a government agency. It happened on a college campus in Utah.
Catch up on Democracy Docket’s reporting from this week about Trump’s plan to control elections, the GOP’s nationwide gerrymander, and DOJ’s hunt for voter fraud.
Texas state Sen. Charles Perry (R) apologized on the Senate floor after Democracy Docket reported last week on racist remarks he made about immigrants.